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Challenged to make more efficient light bulbs — by a law that some in Congress want to repeal — American industry has responded with gusto.
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Challenged to make more efficient light bulbs — by a law that some in Congress want to repeal — American industry has responded with gusto.
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Rep. Joe Barton's last bright idea – to apologize to BP for having to make reparations for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – earned him national ridicule.
His pandering may not have misfired (much) in the conservative-leaning Texas district he represents, but it was a rude affront to those who earn a living on the gulf, and anyone who cares about the workers and wildlife there.
Now, less than a year later, Barton again appears to have his finger on the pulse of the mean-spirited minority.
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Deb Lovig's official title at Cree, the lighting and semiconductor company, is "LED Programs Evangelist." The description fits. Ask her to pick a favorite project and she'll name five before you get her stopped. She'll skip from North Carolina State's dorm lighting project (see picture, right) to the University of California-Davis' smart parking garage to Notre Dame's beautiful acorn-shaped fixtures without taking a breath.
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Mar 20, 2013, 07:08 PM
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HELP for my family room, formal living and dining room
I had my home built in 2001. We have lived in the home for approximately twelve years without any major decorating being done (no paint, no new furniture NOTHING). I have finally decided to put my personal touch on my home - yet I have no idea what that is. I removed the carpet in the family room and plan on replacing it along with the formal dining room and formal living room with hardwood, color high gloss teak cherry hardwood. What color do I paint the walls, what color furniture do I purchase. Any assistance or comments will be greatly appreciated.
Apr 01, 2013, 08:10 AM
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Welcome. Before you decide on the color and species of your new hardwood flooring, have a sense of the wood tone your new furniture will have. The dark cherrywood may limit you. Although it is fine to mix woods, the coloration should compliment each other.
BTW, dark hardwood floors in a high sheen will show scratches and water spots more readily the lighter floors in a more matte finish. Dust and some pet hair (if applicable) will also be noticed.
Factor in the natural and artificial lighting of your spaces as well as potential wall colors as dictated from your upholstery or rug choices too otherwise you may risk dark spaces. Cool colors like blues and greens or those with cool undertones tend to compliment red floors.
Again, look ahead to your decor preferences before you commit to the hardwood coloration for the whole picture.
Apr 03, 2013, 06:24 PM
I agree with Froo regarding the shiny gloss flooring. We opted for a matte/satin finish and I am so glad that I did. Regular walking/moving furniture/shoes/pets/children/toys/etc will scratch the floor very quickly.
Go look at furniture and take your time doing so. I believe you will know what piece speaks to you when you see it. Don't make the mistake that I did years ago and purchase what you "think" others would expect to see. It's your house and you have to live in it every day.
Sometimes people like to choose colors for walls like they would with fashion. What colors are you drawn to in your closet? If you have a spouse, what colors does he tend to go with? If you like wearing a bold color like red (for example) but can't quite picture it on every wall, you can opt to bring the red in with accessories like pillows, throws, artwork, etc.
Another suggestion...they have a "designers' gallery" on the website. You can literally look at different styles, furniture placement, wall colors and everything else that you had questions about. That might give you a very good start to deciding what you like.
Remember that you don't have to get it all done in a week! I sensed that you are finally ready to commit yourself to decorating and painting which is wonderful but have fun doing it.
Edited to add...It's actually called Designers' Portfolio. Sorry bout that. If you look at the very top of the page and click decorating. Then slide across to "all decorating". Then scroll down to "Designers' Portfolio".
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At U.S. Cellular Field hours after Rose suffered a stunning season-ending injury, White Sox pitcher Jake Peavy continued an impressive comeback from latissimus dorsi reattachment two years ago by giving up a measly run in a complete-game loss to the Red Sox. Of Peavy's last 23 innings, 22 have been scoreless.
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Recovery from catastrophic injuries takes time and tenacity, patience and perseverance, but competitive athletes in every sport who are wired like Peavy and Rose routinely come back as good as ever thanks to modern medicine.
Eventually, no reason exists why Rose cannot recapture his ability and the imagination of Bulls fans. What makes the injury so hard for those fans to accept is the knowledge that this Bulls team was built to win a championship this year, and who knows what the roster will look like when Rose returns?
Projecting Rose to eventually regain his MVP form takes a smaller leap of faith than predicting the Bulls immediately will return to NBA title contender status. As one respected longtime sports doctor told me Sunday, the greatest challenge facing Rose might be as daunting emotionally as physically.
By now ACL reconstruction surgery tends to be routine, but rehabilitation can be a dark, lonely place. This wasn't the type of solitude Rose talked about seeking in a recent GQ cover story, but it is the reality that awaits him.
"There's not a kid I've been around that's mentally tougher than Derrick Rose," Bulls general manager Gar Forman said Sunday. "Our belief and his belief is that he will come back stronger than ever."
Experience should make Rose educated enough in the next phase of his career to avoid hurling his body into midair with regularity. Emphasis on perimeter shooting could make Rose more accurate from 3-point range so he can penetrate less and protect his body more. His effort will be as familiar as his No. 1 jersey.
"We know everyone wants an answer for why and fans can be eager to look for blame, which is natural, (but) the reality is bad injuries happen in sports and unfortunately this happened in our city, to our franchise and to one of the finest role models we've ever been around," Bulls vice president of operations John Paxson said. "I feel so badly for Derrick, but this very well could be what defines his greatness going forward."
Indeed this very well could reveal how tough the kid from Englewood truly is — as well as test the resourcefulness of the Bulls organization.
Consider every payroll and personnel decision Forman and Paxson have made since Rose's arrival pointed to winning with the current roster mix of ability and chemistry typically seen on championship teams.
In the offseason, while Rose rehabs, the Bulls front office will face tough decisions on contract options for key players on the NBA's deepest bench: C.J. Watson, Kyle Korver and Ronnie Brewer. Starters Rip Hamilton and Carlos Boozer won't be any younger the next time Rose suits up. Ramifications of Rose's injury mean the supporting cast that welcomes Rose back might be different — and less supportive.
"It's not a death sentence for him or our team," coach Tom Thibodeau told reporters at the Berto Center.
Staying positive and focused, Thibodeau seemed unfazed by criticism he received for having Rose in the game with a 12-point lead and 1 minute, 22 seconds left. Forman sounded more flabbergasted by the backlash in a phone conversation.
"It's a playoff game!" Forman said. "There absolutely was no issue with us."
Two highly respected sports physicians told me nobody should blame Thibodeau or NBA Commissioner David Stern for a compressed regular-season schedule that took a physical toll. Nobody should blame Rose's five previous injuries that one doctor reasoned had "no correlation" to tearing an ACL. Nobody should blame Adidas, as a rogue Nike designer suggested on Twitter, or a curse on Chicago athletes.
Sometimes, there is nobody to blame but the basketball gods.
"It's a freak deal," Forman said. "It could have happened the first or last minute of the game. It could have happened at practice. It happened, but we still have enough to get it done."
If the Bulls somehow do, I kidded Forman that Thibodeau could name his price in upcoming contract negotiations.
Forman laughed out loud.
At least he still could.
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Kick off UXcamp Europe with a few drinks and snacks in the heart of Berlin and mingle with fellow barcampers from all over the world.
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At 9 AM more coffee and breakfast-y snacks.
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Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.
When you come, be prepared to share with barcampers.
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Attendees must give a demo, a session, or help with one, or otherwise volunteer / contribute in some way to support the event.
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For two days UXcamp Europe will host around 500 international UX professionals from such diverse disciplines as Information Architecture, (Web–)Development, Interaction & Visual Design, Service Design, Content Strategy, Psychology and Usability.
International: since 2010 UXcamp Europe saw a 50/50 ratio of German/international participants of which the majority came from Europe. We also welcomed guests from the USA, Brazil, Japan and India to Berlin so far.
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"Their starting pitching gets the credit it deserves — and deserves more,'' the Rays' Evan Longoria told the Detroit Free Press.
Chosen one: The Red Sox picked seventh in the draft after their nightmare season in 2012 and used that pick to grab a left-handed pitcher they hope will neutralize the Yankees' hitting a few years from now. That was 6-foot-6 Trey Ball from New Castle, Ind., who probably would have been the White Sox's choice if he had stayed on the board longer.
Ball was considered a two-way prospect last summer when he came to Wrigley Field for the Under Armour All-American Game, but his fastball jumped to 94 mph this season, when he went 6-0 with an 0.76 ERA. He hadn't expected to go this high.
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"I'm kind of speechless,'' Ball said. "It's kind of surprising. … I guess it was a last-minute decision, I'm not for sure. But it's a moment of greatness and I'm very excited, very happy."
The full package: You probably know Mike Brito as the guy in the chapeau holding the radar gun at Dodger Stadium. It seems he has been doing that as long as Vin Scully has been calling games. But Brito always has been much more than an extra on baseball broadcasts.
He's a legendary international scout — the guy who discovered Fernando Valenzuela. He has re-established his brand by playing a major role in the pursuit of Yasiel Puig, the Cuban outfielder who is an overnight sensation after a dramatic first week with the Dodgers.
Brito scouted Puig at tournaments with Cuba's junior national team and encouraged his bosses to ignore criticisms that he was out of shape and had attitude problems. He told MLB.com this spring, "You don't have to be a genius to see the talent with a guy like this.''
Everyone's seeing it, including a lot of teams that wish they had been more aggressive in pursuing him. Agent Jaime Torres worked to interest the Cubs and White Sox but neither Chicago team came close to matching the seven-year, $42 million deal that the Dodgers offered.
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Nichols College graduates Jason Rush '08 and Daniel Rush '12 have won a $15,000 prize for developing ShoutBot, a new iPhone app. This week the brothers are submitting the app to Apple for review and approval.
The two were among almost 300 aspiring entrepreneurs in the 6th annual New Product Innovation Competition at Boston's Suffolk University, from which Jason earned his MBA in 2011.
The contest awards prizes in six divisions, including freshmen, graduate students, and alumni. The Rush brothers won in the alumni division, which attracted about a fifth of the competition's entrants.
ShoutBot allows users to transmit voice messages much the same way as written messages can be sent via Twitter. "It's a new form of social media that allows users to broadcast their voice," says Dan Rush, who notes that Jason came up with the idea last fall.
""My brother was talking with friends," he recalls, "and said, 'I wish I could get on my phone and say something and have it go out like a tweet.'" Instead of "tweets,' users of the new app issue "shouts."
"We figured that if you could actually say the message, and put some emotion into it," it would appeal to prospective users, Dan continues. "I could say how my day was going or what it was like being in stuck in traffic." Or he points out, users could act as citizen journalists, reporting in their own voices on events they witness.
While older brother Jason serves as the fledgling company's CEO, Dan works as the chief communication officer, which leverages the Nichols degree in Business Communications that he received last May. Dan points to the professionalism that he developed over his Nichols career, especially when it comes to presentation skills.
"After we presented as finalists in the Suffolk competition, the judges came up to me thinking that I was the guy with the MBA," Dan says.
Sushil Bhatia, the Executive in Residence for Suffolk's Strategy and International Business program, founded the innovation competition. "I'm an inventor myself and was hired at Suffolk to support new product development," he explains, adding that while competitions at other schools require contestants to develop a business plan, he was looking for something more advanced.
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Earlier this year, the Kings were sold to a group headed "by software billionaire Vivek Ranadive, who will become the first Indian-born owner in National Basketball Association history," according to a Bloomberg report in May.
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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple's budget plan obscured a huge spending increase by financing new road construction and property tax subsidies from a separate state account financed by surplus oil revenues, records show.
The Republican governor's budget recommendations, when presented to the Legislature in December, proposed $3.3 billion in general fund spending during the 2011-13 budget period, an increase of 1.4 percent from current levels.
When the Legislature finished its work on the state's next two-year budget on Thursday, the general fund budget had risen 25 percent, to almost $4.1 billion, even though Dalrymple and the Legislature's Republican majority leaders said its final spending levels were similar to what the governor first proposed.
The reason, Dalrymple and legislative analysts say, is the governor's plan accounted separately for some large expenditures, including $370 million for road repairs in western North Dakota's oil country and almost $342 million in payments to local schools that will be used to reduce local property taxes.
Those programs were financed by a fund for surplus oil taxes that has often been used as a piggy bank for favored projects. The Legislature abolished the fund, which is called the Permanent Oil Tax Trust Fund, and ordered that the money be transferred to the general fund.
"Dalrymple's budget was trying to be sneaky," said Dustin Gawrylow, director of the North Dakota Taxpayers Association. "It comes down to creative accounting. What happened was that the Legislature had to clean up the governor's budget because it was not presented in a straightforward way."
Dalrymple said the structure of his budget recommendations was easy to comprehend. It was presented as it was to separate road repairs, building projects and other non-recurring expenses from state government's ongoing costs, such as employee salaries, medical care for the poor and state aid to schools, he said.
"I do think, from a budgeting standpoint, that is an important distinction to make, whether you're looking back, looking at the present or looking at the future," Dalrymple said. "I think our budget proposal was very straightforward. I think it's very understandable. I think it's appropriate to separate ongoing spending from one-time spending."
Legislators believed Dalrymple's budget structure also was an attempt to minimize the shock value of a general fund spending increase of more than 20 percent over two years.
North Dakota's general fund is financed mostly by state taxes on sales, income and energy, and the size of the general fund budget of North Dakota government is a closely watched and frequently reported number.
It does not represent the total state budget, which includes federal aid and an assortment of revenues that are reserved for specific programs, such as gasoline tax collections and hunting license fees. The Legislature's total budget for the 2011-13 biennium is $9.92 billion, an increase of 12.2 percent.
Dalrymple and the Legislature's GOP majority leaders, Bismarck Sen. Bob Stenehjem and Fargo Rep. Al Carlson, are also praising the new budget plan's money reserves, even though the Legislature can't access most of the cushion for six years.
A summary compiled by Dalrymple's office lists just over $1 billion in reserves as being part of the newly written 2011-13 budget. Most of the money will be stashed in the Legacy Fund, which North Dakota voters created last year as a repository for a share of the state's oil tax revenues, and the Budget Stabilization Fund, which can be used only if state tax collections fall short.
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"That will create a different sort of perspective two years from now," Dalrymple said. "But I believe that we have enough optimism in this Legislature, and enough confidence in where we're going in the next two years, that they felt they absolutely could sustain this budget."
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What are some successful ways to integrate technology into k-12 classrooms? How have you used technology to support teaching and/or learning?
I am not a classroom teacher, but a tech teacher who tries to encourage my teachers as much as possible. One thing I have managed to get going in a classroom (and did in my own many years ago) is to use Inspiration/Kidspiration on a projector. We don't have interactive boards, but do have projectors and doc cameras. Kidspiration displayed for the whole class to see is very engaging. Allowing a student to do the typing as the class brainstorms is also motivating. The next step is puting hyperlinks and video into your projects, and making that part of the class discussion. This diagram or web is then on the server for students to access during a center time or lesson in the lab.
I just learned about Webspiration. It's like Kidspiration/Inspiration but is Internet based! No software to download.
That's too bad that they are going to make people pay for it. I'll have to check out Bubbl.us. Thanks for sharing!
Bubbl.us is very cute! Students in my classes create concept maps at the end of each chapter. They are going to enjoy this--thanks!
One way to integrate technology into the classroom is to use a digital camera. I frequently take pictures of students engaged in activities and of student work. These images are used to support teaching by reinforcing concepts covered in class and also to promote independent learning. On my district teacher page there is a nifty feature that turns jpegs into puzzles. Putting images of students working on projects or images of student work into puzzles is a wonderful way to get them on the class site. I find this helps some stay organized as many students then click on our "Class Calendar" to check on due dates and such.
Click the link below for a sample. If you click the Student Puzzles to the left, there are samples of student science art work turned into puzzles too.
That puzzle activity is neat! Took me over 3 minutes to complete it, and I had to pause it once. LOL
Great website Christine. I love the bait (puzzle) and switch (calendar) strategy.
Now that depends on what you mean by "technology." So often I hear teachers in conferences and inservices use the word "technology" to mean computers and internet resources. Those are great but lets not forget about all the "low tech" types of technology you can use in the classroom.
I've been doing lots of "technology" projects with my 4th & 5th grade science clubs that have nothing to do with computers but do an awesome job of getting the students interested in science and engineering.
Such things as simple circuits, solar power, electricity, and robotics can be cheap and easy. Such things are very hands on for your more kinesthetic kids. Plus more often than not you can send such projects home with the kids.
An easy project to do are "bristlebots." Its a very very very simple robotic concept that can also be used in lessons that deal with motors, electricity, motion, movement, center of gravity. The entire "bot" is just a toothbrush head with double sided foam tape on the top, and a small battery connected to a vibrating motor (like in a cell phone). The motor vibrate and the vibrations move down the bristle and cause it to move.
Instructables.com has a whole lot of guides on how to make them. I like this guide the best.
One very interesting way to get girls interested in "technology" is showing them 'Soft Circuitry.' This is the process of using conductive thread, fabric, and electrical parts to make wearable technology. Instructables has a lot of simple guides on projects. Sparkfun.com has lots of parts.
Just some ideas on ways to do non-computer centered "technology."
Excellent point, Joshua! Technology is NOT just about computers! You shared some great ideas and resources. I'll be sure to check out Instructables.com. I'm not familiar with that site.
I was so encouraged to try new things after the ISTE Conference at the end of June. This year I am going to try a BYOD approach to Student Response. I am creating a Blog and I am going to post a question and the address and let the students use their cell phones, Ipads, Latops (Or if they do not have any of these they can use on that the school provides) and the students will be able to answer the question in real time.
Of course I will have each student sign an acceptable use pledge before I begin!
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Kim, I spent a day at ISTE. I'm curious, who were some of your favorite presenters?? Unfortunately, I didn't get to very many sessions.
I was able to g to at least 8 free workshop or Model lessons and by far the most inspiring was Kevin Honeycut
Here is a link to the video taken during that session. http://www.isteconference.org/ISTE/2011/program/search_results_details.php?sessionid=60751713
Kevin did present at another time as well. I can't remember what the session was called. All of his handouts and links are on his web site and his ISTE program page
I also got a lot from Tammy Worcester. I saw two of her sessions
http://www.tammyworcester.com/Tips/Tammys_Technology_Tips_for_Teachers.html There is a tab on the top of her website named Handouts, find and click on ISTE in the Schdule .
But if you go to the ISTE 2011 site, all the presenters have at least their handouts posted.
Here is the link to the Program overview. It is kind of hard to find now on the ISTE site.
On the right side bar you can choose sessions by presenter, or category etc. Click on one of those then click on the presentation.There you will find any handouts or links to the presenters website for the handouts. Etc.
You may also want to check out the Conference NING There was a LOT posted there as well.
http://www.iste2011.org/ (you will have to join this NING and I am not sure if they are still accepting new members although I don't see why not!
Have fun!
Jeanne Rogers mentioned that TIM, Technology Integration Matrix, provides a foundation for professional development for technology integration and a common vocabulary for talking about effective uses of technology in teaching and learning. The TIM illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students, as indicated on the website from FCIT at USF. There are five levels in technology integration: entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, or transformation.
What level are you? How do you see this tool being used to help develop one's technical skills?
Thanks, Lynne, for the link! Will check this out!


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Three moms or six dads or everyone being raised by a gay 15 year old is his vision of ideal.
Three moms or six dads or everyone being raised by a gay 15 year old is his vision of ideal.
In fact, you don't even have to put on dress/makeup in Caifornia. ALL you have to do is DECLARE this and you can go into women's restrooms/locker rooms.
As a younger person I would have definitely, perversely, claimed that I was a woman inside a man's body to go peep. (I am more mature now and moral as well I guess).,
OP: Why is it that if an American man slaps on a far-too-tight dress and some poorly-applied make-up and goes around calling himself a woman, he immediately becomes legally recognized as a woman, but if he were to slap on a Crocodile Dundee hat and starts speaking with an Australian accent, he would never automatically become legally recognized as a citizen of Australia?
Look, I get it. You reject cultural norms. I don't have any problem with this. But you can't expect the rest of the country to shift what they consider normal to align with what you consider normal... any more than they can expect this of you.
First of all, if a man slaps on a dress and some makeup he's not really recognized as a woman. That's an exaggeration.
Second of all, Crocodile Dundee is an American stereotype of Australians. But I'll say this... I reckon if go to the gold coast and drink some VB, drive a Holden UTE and watch the AFL with my Aussie mates while we bag on the abos, I'd be far more accepted as an Australian than a man who walks into a bar wearing drag is accepted as a woman.
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Located on the top floor of Elegance Diamond hotel, the Gourmet Corner restaurant and terrace bar boast the finest view of Hanoi from the 12th floor, overlooking Hoan Kiem Lake, the Red River and the ever-growing skyline of Hanoi. A selected menu of authentic Vietnamese food prepared by our experienced 5-star chef, served by a team of attentive waiting staff will savor your taste. The restaurant provide you full meals during the day. Delivery service is also available throughout our hotel chain. Still, you can drop by for a drink at the terrace bar to see the panoramic view of the lake, the river in the sunset.
Any booking or inquiry can be made to:
Rooftop - 32 Lo Su Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
Tel : (+84-4) 3935 1632 Ext. 1205
Fax : (+84 4) 3935 1636
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Narrated by HN1 - Vietnam Television News
"Wonderful Food, Even Better Staff"
April 2, 2014 NEW
This is a great restaurant and really deserving of it;s ranking as one on Hanoi's top restaurants. The location is on the 12th Floor of the Hanoi Elegance Diamond hotel, and you'll need to book a table to get in.
Food is superb, beautifully presented tasty and delicious. It is a mixture of international and Vietnamese cuisine. If you choose Vietnamese, you'll be in food heaven.
It's not expensive by our standards but will depend on what food selections and alcohol you order.
Do your self a favour and try this one out, you will not be disappointed.
Highly Recommended.
"Fantastic place"
Reviewed March 29, 2014 NEW
Ate here on our last night in Bangkok and enjoyed every mouthful! Started with a cocktail then a bottle of white wine. Waitress was superb - attentive without being suffocating which many in Hanoi are! Had the advocado salad followed by the sea bass and then the really delicious pannecotta with mango was to die for. Views from the windows were wonderful and only sorry we did not stay here in the hotel.
"Delicious food, cosy setting"
Reviewed March 25, 2014
We dined here for one of the last meals of our holiday after a motorbike tour around North Vietnam. We all chose Vietnamese style meals and they were all delicious. Not huge portions but enough if you have a starter also. I had read on here about the Pomelo salad - this was amazing! And we were very excited to have New Zealand ice cream as we are from NZ but live in Europe.
The staff were lovely and attentive.
I would recommend that you call ahead to book as it is a very small restaurant, and ask for a table over looking the lake.
"Best Vietnamese food I've tasted!"
Reviewed March 23, 2014
We went to The Gourmet Corner on our last day in Vietnam having tasted a lot of Vietnamese cuisine the last 2 weeks & the food we had at The Gourmet Corner was hands down the best Vietnamese food we tasted the whole trip! I recommend the Bun Cha, it was exquisite! And the service we got was amazing, our waitress Sabrina was so lovely and helpful. If you want to taste Vietnamese food I highly recommend going to The Gourmet Corner, but they do also have Western cuisine. The place is really cosy also!
"Best experience throughout Cambodia and Vietnam"
Reviewed March 22, 2014
Wow, went there for dinner tonight (22 Mar) from a friends recommendation. When we made the reservation 4 days earlier I briefly mentioned my birthday and can we have a nice table. All tables are lovely and this really is a fine dining experience. They had little balloons and streamers over our table light and also came out singing happy birthday to me with a dessert cake and candles. So unexpected and a lovely touch. I just wanted a nice table with a view! The staff are really wonderful and attentive and the meals were devine. You must go to this restaurant as everything else pales in comparision.


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Division I Board of Directors adopts improvements in academic standards and student-athlete support: The DI Board continued the quick-action precedent set earlier this summer, adopting a package of proposals that toughen academic standards and provide increased academic and economic support to student-athletes. Read more »
Telephonic press conference: Listen to the discussion of decisions made by the Division I Board of Directors. Read more »
Division I Board of Directors preview: DI Board could change academic standards, financial aid opportunities. Read more »
Presidential Retreat recap: Division I leaders call for sweeping changes to college athletics. Read more »
Division I Board of Directors recap from August meeting: DI Board approves increased academic performance concept. Read more »
By Michelle Brutlag Hosick
When the Division I Board of Directors voted to allow institutions to offer some student-athletes up to $2,000 for miscellaneous expenses toward the full cost of attendance and to extend scholarship offers beyond the traditional one-year term, Sun Belt Conference Commissioner Wright Waters was ready.
Wright Waters
The conference had been tracking on the issue and embraced the concepts as beneficial for student-athletes.
"We said (to our schools), 'Okay, have at it,'" Waters said. "We told them every recruit should be treated as an individual. Each one is different and has different needs. We want to provide maximum flexibility for our institutions."
Chris Massaro, athletics director at Sun Belt member Middle Tennessee State, said whether or not the school would provide the miscellaneous expense allowance to its student-athletes wasn't a question at all. While his budget doesn't compare to those at Texas or Ohio State, Massaro said Middle Tennessee was committed to making the option available to its coaches.
Only student-athletes receiving the value of a full scholarship are eligible for the miscellaneous expense allowance. Any student-athlete in a head-count sport would be eligible.
Student-athletes receiving a full equivalency, a partial equivalency and aid from other sources (institutional or academic aid) or full academic/institutional aid are eligible for the miscellaneous expense allowance. However, any student-athlete who receives the miscellaneous expense allowance (even if they receive no other athletics aid) will become a counter.
Financial aid (such as the Pell Grant and student loans) not counted per NCAA rules toward the full scholarship limit may not be used to reach the full grant limit in order to be eligible for the miscellaneous expense allowance. The new legislation exempts all other forms of non-athletically related financial aid from counting toward team limits, which will provide student-athletes with additional sources of institutional financial aid.
Student Assistance Funds may be used to provide the miscellaneous expense allowance.
The NCAA believes schools should count for Title IX purposes any aid awarded on the basis of athletics ability or participation. According to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, institutions must ensure that the total dollars awarded to male and female student-athletes fall within one percentage point of student-athlete participation. The NCAA is waiting on confirmation from the OCR that this will apply to the miscellaneous expense allowance, as well.
More male student-athletes receive full grants-in-aid, so more of them would be eligible for the miscellaneous expense allowance. Schools will have to decide whether to award the allowance to all eligible student-athletes, knowing that, if the department is already in compliance with Title IX, the same number of dollars must be spent annually on athletically related financial aid in all men's sports and all women's sports.
The multi-year award legislation allows schools to offer athletics aid for periods longer than one academic year. Schools will be allowed to provide student-athletes an athletics aid agreement for up to five years. And, institutions are now able to provide financial aid, including athletics aid, to a former student-athlete for any term in which he or she enrolls.
Multi-year awards are not required to award the same amount each year. For example, a multi-year agreement can stipulate that a student-athlete will receive a certain amount in the freshman year and a different amount in the sophomore year.
Schools must also continue to adhere to current rules governing reduction or nonrenewal of aid as it relates to multi-year awards and the miscellaneous expense allowance. Similarly, institutions can not reduce or cancel athletics aid in a multi-year award unless the situation involves a legislated condition such as academic ineligibility or disciplinary action.
"It's a priority," he said. "If something is a priority, you shift your resources around enough to make allowances for it."
The issue became a priority for two reasons, he said: It's the right thing to do for student-athletes, and they know they will be recruiting against other schools that will be offering the additional funding.
"We want to be as competitive as we possibly can. They're going to do it, we're going to do it too," he said.
Massaro estimates the MEA will cost his department between $300,000 and $400,000 out of his $18 million to $20 million budget. He said the school will make adjustments by cutting expenses and not spending in other areas.
Waters said that while he anticipates allowing some use of the conference's Student-Athlete Assistance Fund pool for the miscellaneous expense allowance, he believes each athletics director should look at his budget with a critical eye.
"I told one athletics director who said he didn't know how he could afford it to ask himself, 'Do I really need four sets of baseball uniforms? Maybe I only need two. Do I really need that trip to Hawaii? Maybe I can find opponents with a bus trip,'" Waters said. "It's going to make some people look at their expenses and figure it out. They're going to have to sit down with their coaches and tell them to find the money in their budgets to pay for it."
Just how Middle Tennessee will address spending in an equitable manner is still up in the air. Massaro said that while he's not sure how it will work, the school is committed to an equitable distribution of financial aid dollars between its male and female student-athletes.
Waters hopes his schools wouldn't make the MEA awards only to its football and basketball players, but said the conference will not mandate that its institutions implement the program in any specific way.
Middle Tennessee is still evaluating what its strategy will be with multi-year awards. Massaro called it a "trickier issue" that divides athletics-related aid from all other forms of aid on campus. Most other forms of aid, including academic awards, require students to meet a minimum standard of performance (like a grade-point average) in order to retain the award. Because of NCAA rules, the multi-year awards cannot be tied to athletics performance.
"It is inconsistent with the rest of campus. We have to make sure we fold into our campus environment," Massaro said. The school has designated a person on its staff to be the financial aid expert to work with the coaches and the compliance office to ensure that, should multi-year awards be offered, no team exceeds its equivalency limits at any time.
For Waters, the addition of the miscellaneous expense allowance is a return to the days of true "full scholarships."
"It's unfortunate that we have misled people to believe that we were awarding a full scholarship at a time when we had a lot of first-generation college students who didn't know better. Kids would arrive on campus and find out they still had to pay out of pocket for some things. That's bad," he said. "We used to get supplies and were able to sell our comp tickets. This will make athletics competitive with other high-end grants on campus."


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I have been asked by many to share my Thinkfinity Community Tips and Tricks, selected from my online course Thinkfinity & Social Networking for Educators, with you in this public venue, the Help Center. I hope these suggestions will be of value to you, but feel free to reply to my posts with comments or questions.
Jane Brown
Thinkfinity Community Manager
Tips and tricks 0: Do NOT use your email address as your community username.
Your username is how you are known in the community. While you may choose in your Profile to keep your full name or email address private, your username is always public, available to both members and non-members from your profile page. By using your email address as your username, you are making it public, and you may have an increase in spam (unsolicited email).
Members cannot edit their own usernames.
If you have accidentally entered your email address as your username when you registered, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and let Thinkfinity Staff know what you would like your username changed to. We will be happy to assist you in making the change.
Note: Usernames must be a minimum of 6 characters, must start with a letter. Allowed characters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, special characters (such as !#$%%), _, - (dash), and .(dot). You can NOT use spaces, and we advise against using the @ symbol.
One way for trainers to create a memorable username for the community is simply to use just the information before the @ in your email address.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 1: Join a Group that interests you.
Select Browse > Places on the dark red navigation bar at the top of the page, and browse for groups with similar interests as your own. Alternately, select Places on the main navigation bar, and use the search filters to locate a group that interests you.
Found a group you would like to join, click on Join this group. This may place your profile in the Recently Joined listing so everyone can get to know you.
Once you have joined, the Join this group link changes to Leave this group. Now you know you can join and leave a group at will.
Here are two ways to keep important things on your radar: you can follow activity or track it. Following is for keeping up in a looser sense. Tracking is for crucial need-to-know.
Note: Selecting Follow in the group navigation bar will change the word to Following and updates (within this group) will appear in your stream. Now you know you can Follow (or select Following to turn off streaming) for a particular group.
Note: Selecting Actions > Track in Communications will change the words to Stop tracking and the item will be tracked in your Inbox, internal to the community.
More: Look under Actions for Receive email notifications link. Selecting this option to receive email notifications will send you an email every time someone posts in this group. Once Receive email notifications is selected, the link changes to Stop email notifications. Now you know you can start and stop email notifications at will in any group or community you may wish to follow closely for any given time.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 2: Take a Peek
You can quickly learn about someone in Thinkfinity Community by hovering your cursor over his/her name or avatar.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 3: Join your State Group
Are you looking for educators in your state to meet up with? Search by state name.
The State Groups are all Open groups so membership is optional; however, I think it would be a good idea to join the group so others may find you there.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 4: I love Spell Check
As you venture out into the general community, you will want your discussion posts to look professional. Please remember to Spell Check your response right before you select Add Reply. You may be so glad you did.
Look for your Spell Check icon (the green checkmark next to abc) in the right corner of your Reply to textbox.
Note to some: You can even toggle your Spell check to eight languages from the drop down arrow beside the Spell Check icon.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 5: Remember Who, not Where
Have you ever forgotten the location of a file, but remembered who worked on it? In the Thinkfinity Community, you can easily get to all of the content that someone has worked on. Just navigate to his/her profile and select the Content tab there. Then you can select the type of content, like Blog Posts, Documents, Discussions, or Polls.
Note: The general membership can NOT see your document if you have left visibility set to Just you, but you can Open it to anyone or Just specific people. The general membership can NOT see your bookmark if you have marked it Private. This is always a good idea for a favorite recipe or some resource not related to the professional focus of the community.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 6: Your Reputation in Thinkfinity Community
All new members start with a status of New User. You can increase your reputation in the Thinkfinity Community by contributing in several different ways. One of the best ways to increase your reputation is by answering questions. When the member who asked the question marks your answer as helpful or correct, you get a boost in your reputation. Other ways to contribute are creating documents, publishing blog posts, and posting to a discussion. Your total number of points will increase by the following:
For more information, please read How To: Earn Points in the Verizon Thinkfinity Community, one of our many helpful documents in the Thinkfinity Community Help Center.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 7: What else can you tell me about bookmarking favorite resources?
You may bookmark any website, document, or discussion that is useful to you. Your Bookmarks live within the Thinkfinity community.
I hope you have read the document, How To: Add add a Bookmark and know the three ways to save a bookmark in your space. In this document, you also learned that when bookmarking a personal website, you can mark it as Private. A personal site might be a recipe, travel information or favorite sports page that you want to keep but which is not an educational site for sharing within the Thinkfinity Community.
Why is there a cog wheel after each bookmark when you are looking at the Browse All > Favorite Resources list? Clicking on the cog wheel will allow you to Follow, Send as email, or save the Bookmark in your own list of Bookmarks. It also is interesting to note the # of Likes, # who have Bookmarked the resource, # of Replies to the bookmarked resource, and the # of Views of the favorite resource. These numbers can quickly tell you which resources others are finding of value.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 8: How can I edit my Profile/Privacy Settings?
Your Thinkfinity Community Profile is all about you. Your profile can contain a short bio, pictures, and your recent activity. Through Privacy Settings you can decide how much information you share with the community.
Tip 2a: You set up your profile during the registration process, but you can always modify your information. Please read All About: Profiles and click on your name on the dark red navigation bar at the top of the page to locate your profile (select Actions > Edit profile & privacy) and make appropriate edits.
Tip 2b: Once you have your Profile set up the way you want, you will want to read Privacy Settings and establish your appropriate Privacy Settings.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 9: Enhance your Profile
Your profile is your identity in the Thinkfinity Community. Your colleagues will go to it to learn about you, understand your expertise, and read content you have written. Make sure it is up to date. At a minimum, you should make sure to do the following:
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 10: Let people know what you are doing
Have you moused over people's avatars and, while reviewing a summary of their profile and seen their latest update, a chunk of information appears telling what they are doing? You may even click on the avatar and see that person's profile page to locate his/her personal update history.
Staying connected is as simple as posting short, quick messages (updates). Perhaps you may let everyone know you are "Training today" or "Attending a retreat." You can post a chunk of information as frequently as you want.
To create an update:
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 11: How can I personalize my community experience?
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Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 12: Get Notified
You can have Thinkfinity send you an email when content you care about is added or changed. This is an alternative to feeds, which require a feed aggregator.
To begin receiving email notifications, navigate to the content you care about - a discussion or blog, for example - and select Receive email notifications under the Actions menu. To stop receiving email notifications, select Stop email notifications.
Note: You can manage all of your email notifications by selecting Preferences under Personal Settings on the drop down menu next to your name (see tiny arrow).
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 13: Reply Using Email
If you subscribe to receive email notifications on any community content (check the Actions menu), you can NOT post a reply in the discussion simply by replying in your email client to the notification email.
For example, imagine you are subscribed to notifications on a discussion thread. When someone posts a reply to the discussion, you will receive an email about it. Replying to the email, typing your discussion reply just as you would type a reply to any email and sending it, will NOT work in the Thinkfinity Community. Replying this way to the email notification that you would like to respond to goes to a email@example.com and it does NOT appear in the Thinkfinity Community.
You will need to click on the View the Full Discussion link and log in to the community in order to respond to the discussion notification you received.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and tricks 14: Help! How can I stop receiving so many email notifications?
A member wrote asking if there is a way to stop the influx of email messages that she is receiving. She simply cannot manage several dozen email messages a day coming into her work inbox. Do you have this problem?
Numerous email notifications can become a problem. First, there is a document in the Help Center called How To: Manage Email Notifications, compiled by our wonderful Community Hosts. This document warrants a careful read if you are wanting some serious control of your email notifications.
You can go to the email notifications in Preferences as described in the initial section of the document and set them all to "No." However, the settings there will only apply to content created going forward from the time you changed your settings. Any content previously set to receive notifications will remain unchanged, and you will continue to receive notifications on that content.
What to do?
Please read the section in the document on Removing Notifications for Specific Content. This should help!
After you have these under control, another thought is to choose in your Preferences to receive an email summary from the community. This step is described under the section in this document on General Email Preferences.
Email notifications is a wonderful feature, but it can get out of hand. I want you to be able to manage your own account and any email notifications to your satisfaction.
Jane Brown
Community Manager
Tips and Tricks 15: How can I manage my Activity Stream?
Sign In and select Activity on left in the dark red navigation bar at the top of the page.
Your Activity page may look intimidating: select All Activity and you can see all the activity generated in the Thinkfinity Community. But as you continue working, you will start personalizing your stream. As you begin following people, places, and content, toggling to Followed Activity shows you only activity from the sources you follow.
Selecting Matters Most in the Followed Activity view allows Jive Genius to trim down your stream to relevant items in your followed stream.
At any time, you can click the Status Updates Only to catch up with status updates from the entire membership stream (if you are in All Activity) or your followed people (if you are in Followed Activity). This is a great way to see what other people in the community are excited about.
Another way to see what is happening in the community is to check out Trending Content and Trending People widgets in the right pane.
After you have been using the Thinkfinity Community for a while, Recommended For You (see right pane) can show you activity you might have missed based on its popularity and relevance to you and your interests. You can help the Recommender learn about what you want to see. If you see a useful recommendation, click Remove. If what you see is something you are not interested in, select Not interested.
How does the Recommender determine what shows might interest you?
There is an algorithm based on these three features:
Tips and Tricks 16: How can I add a link to my discussion, blog, or document?
Linking is one of the key elements that makes our website valuable. You can include links in anything you post in the Thinkfinity Community by highlighting the text you want to convert to a link and selecting the link button in the editor tools to activate the Link Picker.
The Link Picker gives you the power to link to any web address (URL), search for something in the Jive Community to link to on the All Content tab, or choose from your recent browsing history on the Browse History tab.
You also can link to documents using @mentioning. Just type an @ followed by some text to start searching for a document. For example, type @Weekly to bring up a picklist of documents with Weekly in the title.
Tips and Tricks 17: Make great resources colleagues have bookmarked your own.
Several Thinkfinity trainers conducting Professional Development sessions have tipped me off to a trick that many people are using to find terrific resources: they check to see what their friends have bookmarked, and save the ones they can use for themselves!
Here's one anecdote:
"I observed a group of California school teachers using the community to save resources that they were going to use the first month of school. There was one teacher who was finding resources quicker than his grade level team members. The other 5th grade teachers were so excited to see that they could just find the teacher's profile from within the Community and "steal" all his cool resources and add them to their bookmark list. It saved the other teachers time.
The "fast clicker" didn't seem to mind that they were "stealing" all his stuff because he was the "techie" guy in the group and his group members would have come to him anyway, asking for ideas. This also saved the "fast clicker" time because he didn't have to help each of them individually. The helpful teacher also tagged his stuff with the school name so teachers in the school could search that way to find his resources."
—by Tammy Dewan
Here's how:
1. Find someone you think might have great resources bookmarked.
2. Click on their username to see their Profile.
3. Select the Bookmarks tab in their profile.
4. Select the cogwheel icon to bookmark the ones you like to your own space.
Tips and Tricks 18: Filter your search
Learn to filter your searches to easily quickly find what you need in Thinkfinity.